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Job Summary:

Sirius

XM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and they are seeking a Director of Cloud Engineering to lead their cloud strategy and infrastructure. The role involves managing a team, contributing to the technology strategy, and ensuring effective cloud usage across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Report to the Vice President of Platform Engineering and participate in cross-team leadership activities within the wider Technology organization.

• Manage and mentor leaders and individual contributors.

• Contribute to the long-term strategy and vision of Platform Engineering and the Sirius

XM technology strategy.

• Build strong relationships with the company’s internal developers and their leaders in order to better understand their strengths, needs, and pain points.

• Partner with Platform Engineering’s Product Management team to inform your team’s roadmaps.

• Inspire and empower your teams in executing against an ambitious product and technical roadmap.

• Provide detailed, constructive feedback to peers and direct reports through reviews of product development artifacts such as product briefs, technical designs, and ADRs.

• Stay on the cutting edge of industry trends to identify new technologies and practices that could contribute to more effective cloud usage at Sirius

XM.

• Serve as a primary point of contact for the company’s relationship with AWS.

• Balance the priorities of a diverse set of stakeholders including backend and client developers, Security, Operations, Data Scientists, and Finance.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 10+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or similar role, including at least 5 years in a management role

• 7+ years of hands on experience architecting and deploying cloud-native applications on a public cloud provider, including at least 2 years on AWS

• Knowledge of foundational infrastructure concepts (e.g. IP networking, identity and access management, VPNs, DNS, firewalling, and load balancing)

• Strong understanding of cloud computing and execution of cloud initiatives in a large distributed organization

• Track record of configuring and administering a large production AWS organization

• Extensive experience with infrastructure as code (IaC)

• Experience supporting development, operations, and security teams, including the ability to provide ongoing architecture and implementation support

• Ability to work through ambiguity and deliver clarity

• Passion for working with internal customers

• Fluency in at least two programming languages

Preferred:

• Experience building an internal developer platform

• Experience with AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Company:

Sirius

XM and its brands (Pandora, Sirius

XM Media, Ads Wizz, Simplecast, and Sirius

XM Connect) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Founded in 1990, the company is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a team of  employees. The company is currently Public Company.

Sirius

XM has a track record of offering H1B sponsor ships.

• Seniority level Executive

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Industries Software Development

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